date:Jan 05, 2016
Sugar futures rose in 2015 for the first time in four years.
The recovery was not plain sailing. Prices in August touched 10.13 cents a pound, the lowest for seven years, undermined in part by the continued pressure from successive years of world production surplus. El Nino-induced weather setbacks, besides weak price incentives, have undermined output.
The depreciation in the Brazilian real also played a big role, cutting the value of assets such as sugar in which the South American country i